When Keir Starmer launched the Labour local election campaign back in April in Wales, he said that if you want to see what would happen to the UK if Labour got in to Downing Street, just look atWales and what do we see going on in Wales? For starters, research by Loughborough University this week told us that, everywhere else in the UK, child poverty is on a downward trend but in Wales, child poverty is rising.
The failure of Labour’s 23 years in power in Wales is being borne by our youngest and mostvulnerable.Here in Wales, 70,000 people are waiting more than two years for NHS treatment. In a modern, wealthy nation, this is a scandal and I can’t forget to mention the bizarre nanny-statism of Labour, who want to ban smoking and vaping outdoors, and who have now decreed that the speed limit in Wales should be 20mph.We cannot risk this sort of poverty of ambition and mis-directed priorities entering Number 10.With Boris at the helm, we won a stonking majority back in 2019. I am proud that, under his stewardship, we put Jeremy Corbyn back in his box, got Brexit done, got the jabs in arms to open up the country, and led the way on support for Ukraine.
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